Obtaining abundant, clean, sustainable energy has become an increasingly large need globally. To date, solar cells have had a limited impact in meeting energy demands. This is primarily due to their relatively high cost ...

Two graphene layers placed in close proximity offer a unique system to investigate interacting electron physics as well as to test novel electronic device concepts. In this system, the interlayer spacing can be reduced to ...

Electron transport in nanoparticle single-electron transistors (SETs) is a fruitful method to explore a wide range of physical phenomena at the nanometer scale. In this thesis, we investigate electron transport in SETs ...

The digital information processing system has benefited tremendously from the invention and development of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits. The relentless scaling of the physical dimensions ...

In this thesis we investigate the electronic band structures and the correlations
in chirally (ABC) stacked N-layer graphene with N ≥ 2. We use ab initio
density-functional theory and k · p theory to fit the parameters ...

The effect of electronic decoherence on nonadiabatic (NA) transition
rate is investigated with nuclear overlap/phase function (NOPF) and mixed
quantum/classical molecular dynamics (MQC-MD) simulations are performed
to ...

The two-dimensional electronic systems (2DESs) have kept surprising physicists for the last few decades. Examples include the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects, cuprate superconductivity, and graphene. This thesis ...

Large volume skeletal muscle injuries, such as those that occur through traumatic or surgical means, are complex injuries that are unable to repair through the body’s native repair processes. These injuries, termed volumetric ...

The Papez circuit appears to play a crucial role in the formation of episodic memory. In particular, the interconnections between the hippocampus and the anterior thalamus seem to be vital for an animal’s ability to orientate ...

Temporal integration refers to the phenomenon whereby the detection threshold of the stimulus decreases (improves) as the signal duration increases. The majority of studies of temporal integration have relied on behavioral ...

An unusual molecular box, 4, obtained as a mixture of diastereoisomeric, doubly cage-annulated host molecules, i.e., 4a and 4b, has been prepared. The metal cation complexation properties of the mixture of 4a and 4b thereby ...